Overview
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Studies
Turnkey (Hardware + Software)
IP Phone Development for Product Cost Reduction
Aricent and Flex Design have jointly developed a complete turnkey
solution for a leading IP telephony and Audio/Video conference
equipment manufacturer. Aricent provided the customer end-to-end
hardware reengineering, software development, and sustenance
services.
New Product Development
SBC Development
Aricent has worked with a European SBC vendor to architect, develop,
test, and sustain its complete SBC offering. The SBC solution
is considered as the industry leader in terms of SBC feature
set and the roadmap. The engagement is spread over more than
two years and has evolved into positioning of the SBC functionality
in the IMS networks (CSCF).
Testing
Softswitch Testing
Aricent has been involved in the complete testing of the softswitch
framework. The key challenges faced during this engagement
are as follows:
- Complex system with numerous open interfaces
- Integration of numerous protocols suites
- Wide range of services and interactions
- Carrier-grade product involving testing for very high
reliability and stability
- Large code size of 3.2 million SLOC
- Stringent timelines due to time-to-market pressure
Tasks carried out as part of this project are as follows:
- Testing of interworking and synchronization of various
domains, such as the traditional PSTN networks, packet data
networks and interface to packet cable domain
- Testing of various services and their interactions
- Development of test environments and scripts, using tools,
such as East (for services, MGCP, NCS, and H.323), STATE
(for MEGACO and TGCP) and K1297 for SS7
SIP Server Framework (SIP SF) Testing
Aricent has been involved in testing the SIP SF functionality
extensively for a key customer. The project scope included
the development of:
- Proxy
- Stateful as well as stateless transactions
- Complete implementation as per RFC 3261
- Registrar
- ODBC interface to an external database
- Default PostgreSQL Location Service
- Digest Authentication
- Complete implementation as per RFC 2069
- DNS and LDAP Lookup services
- SIP Load Balancing
- High Availability - 1:1 Hot-standby
Sustenance
Voice Optimized Media Gateway
Aricent has been working with the largest US router and switch
OEM to provide sustenance and testing services for their prestigious
Media Gateway program. This will be the first 24x7 support
offering from the OEM to be outsourced to any vendor to support
their customers in 30 countries across five continents. This
shall involve Tier 2 and Tier 3 support with direct interactions
with the end customers, which are world’s leading service
providers.
Voice Enabled Multi-Service Switches
Aricent has also been working with the above-mentioned customer
to provide sustenance and testing services for their voice
enabled multi-service Switch program. Aricent has been involved
in release support, bug fixing, and feature additions for
this existing platform based on the customer’s proprietary
OS and hardware.
Last updated :
January 4, 2006
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